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HiHow offen You fly old kite- kites made before 2000 year?HmmmmWe all have some old kites....I catch my self not to fly older kites. Always go on newer ...Yesssssss -speaking myself-I will fly this old kite -but old kites are sleeps in a bag ....Only or two times I flow old kite this year...Does Your old kites sleeps too and do You always run on favorites newer generation kites?Smooth windsboris

I have fond memories of my old kites, recollections of how accurate they flew, the pull, the noise. There was a mid point when tricking was becoming the fad where many of the kites I flew were not real accurate flyers because materials hadn't caught up yet, at least in my price range. That reinforced the nostalgia for those old slow, loud, accurate kites. Then sometime quality carbon spars and fabrics found their way into the mid price range. That nostalgia was still there though. But pulling those old kites out was a humbling lesson, today's kites are so far advanced from yesterday's. Sure I've lost the touch those old ones needed but they just don't fill the need today. Only the Flexifoils are what I recall and they really don't have a modern equivalent.

In short mine are on an extended vacation, well earned in many cases.

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